Quotes by Bacon, Roger

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the >>

All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things >>

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain >>

Quotations about Argument

In a false quarrel there is no true valor. >>

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle i >>

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last. >>

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Bacon, Roger